Inside Out (45 page)

May 1967

Procul Harum’s ‘A Whiter Shade Of Pale’ enters the UK singles charts

12 May 1967

‘Games For May’ at the Queen Elizabeth Hall

June 1967

The Beatles’
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band
released

16 June 1967

‘See Emily Play’ released

16–18 June 1967

Monterey International Pop Music Festival takes place

27 June 1967

First automated cash machine installed at Barclays Bank, Enfield

6 July 1967

First
Top Of The Pops
appearance, performing ‘See Emily Play’

28 July 1967

Last UFO show at the original Tottenham Court Road location

5 August 1967

THE PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN released

12 August 1967

7th National Jazz and Blues Festival, Windsor

30 September 1967

The BBC launches Radio 1. The first track played (by
DJ Tony Blackburn) is The Move’s ‘Flowers In The Rain’

3 October 1967

Chuck Yeager sets new air speed record of Mach 6.7 in the X-15

9 October 1967

Che Guevara shot dead by Bolivian government troops

3 November 1967

First tour of the USA opens at the Winterland, San Francisco

9 November 1967

First issue of
Rolling Stone
magazine published

3 December 1967

First successful heart transplant carried out by Dr Christian Barnard

14 December 1967

Start of the Jimi Hendrix tour, at the Royal Albert Hall

18 December 1967

‘Apples And Oranges’ released

22 December 1967

‘Christmas On Earth Continued’ event at Olympia Exhibition Hall, London

24 December 1967

Apollo 8 enters moon orbit. Frank Borman, Jim Lovell and Williams Anders become the first humans to see the dark side of the
moon

1968

12 January 1968

First appearance of Pink Floyd as a five-piece with David Gilmour

4 April 1968

Martin Luther King assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee

6 April 1968

Syd’s departure officially announced

12 April 1968

‘It Would Be So Nice’ released

29 April 1968

The Broadway premiere of
Hair

May 1968

Student-led riots in Paris

28 May 1968

Kylie Minogue born

5 June 1968

Robert Kennedy assassinated in Los Angeles, California

29 June 1968

A SAUCERFUL OF SECRETS released. Hyde Park free concert

8 July 1968

Second tour of the USA starts

15–17 August 1968

Scene Club, New York City

20 August 1968

Soviet troops invade Czechoslovakia to end the ‘Prague Spring’

27 October 1968

Anti-Vietnam war demonstration outside the US Embassy in Grosvenor Square, London, broken up by police

26 November 1968

Cream’s farewell concert at the Royal Albert Hall

17 December 1968

‘Point Me At The Sky’ released

1969

2 January 1969

Nick Mason marries Lindy Rutter

9 February 1969

Boeing 747 makes maiden flight

2 March 1969

Concorde makes maiden flight

14 April 1969

‘More Furious Madness From The Massed Gadgets of Auximenes’ event at the Royal Festival Hall, London

13 May 1969

Premiere of
More
at Cannes Film Festival

26 June 1969

Royal Albert Hall, London, final show of first major UK tour for two years

5 July 1969

The Rolling Stones play in Hyde Park, dedicating their performance to Brian Jones

21 July 1969

Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become the first men to walk on the moon – BBC use Floyd music for moon landing

15–17 August 1969

The Woodstock Music and Arts Festival

29–31 August 1969

The Isle of Wight Festival

5 October 1969

First BBC broadcast of
Monty Python’s Flying Circus

25 October 1969

UMMAGUMMA released

6 December 1969

The Rolling Stones appear at the Altamont Speedway, California

1970

3 January 1970

Syd Barrett’s
The Madcap Laughs
released

5 February 1970

Zabriskie Point premieres

10 April 1970

Paul McCartney announces
that the Beatles are splitting up

16 April 1970

Apollo 13 returns safely to earth

4 May 1970

Four anti-Vietnam War protestors shot dead during demonstrations on the campus at Kent State University, Ohio

27 June 1970

Pink Floyd appear at the Bath Festival of Blues and Progressive Music

18 July 1970

Second Hyde Park free concert

26 July 1970

Start of Riviera mini-tour at the Festival International Jazz d’Antibes

27 July 1970

Kenneth Tynan’s
Oh, Calcutta!
revue opens in London

18 September 1970

Jimi Hendrix dies

19–20 September 1970

The first Glastonbury Festival (then known as the Pilton Festival) is held

October 1970

Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s
Jesus Christ Superstar
album released

4 October 1970

Janis Joplin dies

10 October 1970

ATOM HEART MOTHER released

14 November 1970

Syd Barrett’s
Barrett
released

1971

15 February 1971

Britain changes to a decimal currency

2 April 1971

Chloe Mason born

8 May 1971

Arsenal win their first ever double as FA Cup and League Champions

12 May 1971

Mick Jagger marries Bianca Perez Moreno de Macias

14 May 1971

RELICS released

15 May 1971

Crystal Palace, London, garden party

20 May 1971

Philips release first video cassette recorder

2 June 1971

Oz obscenity trial opens

3 July 1971

Jim Morrison dies

1 August 1971

Concert For Bangladesh in New York, organised by George Harrison

6–7 August 1971

Hakone Festival, Japan

13 August 1971

First Australian tour begins

4–7 October 1971

Filming for
Live At Pompeii

10 October 1971

Reconstructed London Bridge opened in Lake Havasu City, Arizona

5 November 1971

MEDDLE released

1972

24 January 1972

Second World War finally ends for Japanese soldier Shoichi Yokoi, after 27 years in hiding on Guam island

17 February 1972

Rainbow Theatre, London, press premiere of
The Dark Side Of The Moon

21 February 1972

Richard Nixon travels to China to meet premier Zhou Enlai

15 March 1972

Film premiere of
The Godfather

1 June 1972

The Dark Side Of The Moon
recording sessions start at EMI Abbey Road

3 June 1972

OBSCURED BY CLOUDS released

1 September 1972

Bobby Fisher becomes world chess champion, beating Boris Spassky

September 1972

Olga Korbut captivates the Munich Olympics

November 1972

Live At Pompeii
film premieres. Roland Petit Ballet de Marseille performances at end of European tour

1973

1 January 1973

The United Kingdom, with Ireland and Denmark, joins the EEC

24 March 1973

THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON released (US release date: 10 March 1973)

18–19 May 1973

Earls Court shows

23 November 1973

Uri Geller, spoonbender extraordinaire, appears on the BBC’s
Dimbleby Talk-In
show

15 December 1973

A NICE PAIR released

1974

4 February 1974

Patty Hearst kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army

13 February 1974

Singer Robbie Williams born

6 April 1974

Abba win the Eurovision Song Contest with ‘Waterloo’

26 July 1974

Robert Wyatt’s
Rock Bottom
released

9 August 1974

President Richard Nixon resigns following the Watergate affair

1 October 1974

First UK franchise of McDonald’s opens in Woolwich, South London

4 November 1974

British Winter 1974 Tour opens at the Usher Hall, Edinburgh

1975

24 March 1975

Holly Mason born

8 April 1975

Wish You Were Here
tour opens in Vancouver

30 April 1975

The Vietnam War formally ends as Saigon falls

20 June 1975

The pyramid balloon breaks free in Pittsburgh

5 July 1975

Knebworth Festival

17 July 1975

Soyuz 19 and Apollo 18 dock. The end of the space race

20 July 1975

Voyager I probe lands on Mars

5 September 1975

WISH YOU WERE HERE released

1 October 1975

‘The Thriller in Manila’: Muhammad Ali vs Joe Frazier

20 December 1975

Video for ‘Bohemian Rhapsody’ shown on
Top Of The Pops

1976

18 February 1976

Controversy over Carl Andre’s bricks at the Tate Gallery, London

3 December 1976

Algie the pig escapes at Battersea

November 1976

The Sex Pistols’ ‘Anarchy In The UK’ released

1977

1977

Nick Mason buys Ferrari 250GTO with ‘250 GTO’ numberplate

28 January 1977

ANIMALS released.
Animals
world tour opens in Westfalenhalle, Dortmund

19 May 1977

The Sex Pistols appear on the
Bill Grundy Show

25 May 1977

First
Star Wars
film,
Episode IV: A New Hope,
goes on release

2–7 June 1977

Queen Elizabeth II’s Silver Jubilee celebration

18 June 1977

The Sex Pistols’ ‘God Save The Queen’ reaches UK Number One

6 July 1977

Olympic Stadium, Montreal show on the
Animals
tour

16 August 1977

Elvis Presley dies

16 September 1977

Marc Bolan dies

November 1977

The Damned’s
Music For Pleasure
released

16 December 1977

Release of
Saturday Night Fever

1978

1978

‘Space Invaders’ launched

January 1978

Kate Bush’s debut single ‘Wuthering Heights’ released, goes to Number One in the UK

25 July 1978

Louise Brown, world’s first ‘test tube’ baby, born

7 September 1978

Keith Moon dies

27 December 1978

Forty years of military dictatorship in Spain end

1979

1979

Sony Walkman released

2 February 1979

Sid Vicious dies

April 1979

The Wall
recording sessions begin in France

4 May 1979

Margaret Thatcher becomes Britain’s first woman prime minister

9–10 June 1979

Nick Mason’s first drive at the Le Mans 24-Hour

12 June 1979

First man-powered flight across the English Channel by Bryan Allen in ‘Gossamer Albatross’

30 November 1979

THE WALL released

22 December 1979

‘Another Brick In The Wall, Part 2’ becomes Number One in the UK

1980

5 February 1980

US launch party for Rubik’s Cube

7 February 1980

The Wall
tour opens at LA Sports Arena

22 March 1980

The Dark Side Of The Moon
has the longest run of a contemporary album on US charts, after 303 weeks

17 July 1980

Saddam Hussein becomes president of Iraq